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Standardized testing... yawn

So Yesterday after I got out of class I noticed a flyer about a lecture to be held regarding "The hundred Languages of Children." Well, being only a few weeks away from co-fatherdom I decided I'd drop in on that lecture, thinking it was going to be about children... what with the topic being the hundred languages of children.... as you can probably tell, for the most part it had very little to do with children. It was mildly interesting to down right sleep inducing to watch Mr. Pence talk about

Demetz in Demetz

October 28, 2006

plot element vs endorsement

A friend and fellow author that I have a great deal of respect and admiration for is having a crisis of confidence. I will not name him but I too have suffered from this type of criticism. Some people can not tell a plot element from an endorsement. When a murder occurs in a story, is the author endorsing murder? When drug use happens in a story, is the author glorifying it? Silly questions? As authors, I believe that the interesting stories are told on the edge. Somewhere on th

October 28, 2006

Odd behavior from an old friend

Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Edge of a Black Hole Press Release of the Max Planck Society Oct 26, 2006 Source Link H.E.S.S. discovers drastic variations of very-high-energy gamma rays from the central engine of the giant elliptical galaxy M 87 The astrophysicists of the international H.E.S.S. collaboration report the discovery of fast variability in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the giant elliptical galaxy M 87. The detection of these gamma-ray photons - with energies

October 28, 2006

squiggly-brained

There

October 27, 2006

Comet Visible! Get your binoculars and have a look

Wow! Striking Green Comet Suddenly Visible in Evening Sky Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer for Space.com October 26, 2006 Source Link Tony Wilder of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin photographed comet Swan amid city glow this week. A faint meteor was captured streaking across the right side of the image, too. Credit: Tony Wilder What had been a modest comet seen only with binoculars or telescopes flared up this week to become visible to the naked eye. Comet Swan, as it is cal

October 26, 2006

Viv's Blog

Since I have 15 minutes to kill...

I guess I'll blog. I was tryinig to... coerce... Steve into doing it for me, but I'm pretty sure that's not gonna happen. I was trying to make a doctor's appointment cause... well... Rich is making me. I guess I should go, since it's my day off and I have nothing else at all I need to do, like the enormous pile of laundry or the dishes or go grocery shopping or... you get the idea right? So apparently we open at 8 means 8:20... whatever, breathing is overrated anyway. So yeah, STILL sick. I

viv

October 26, 2006

Chronicles of My Life

"Dude, focus"

Yeah, so I said that to my cd player today . I was on my way to the bank and I was listening to a cd in my truck, and really enjoying it, when it suddenly started to skip. So without even thinking about it I looked at the cd player and said "dude, focus". LOL, then I realized that was a silly thing to say to a cd player. Of course by then I was laughing my butt off so I went all fake dramatic, "Comeon! This is like your only purpose in life. You can do this! Focus, you can get thro

AFriendlyFace

October 26, 2006

lostone's Blog

Monday really felt like it

You all know the title of my story...well let me tell ya how my week has been so far. I got up just like always on monday, had to turn the heat on so I froze my but off till the temprature in the house got up to 60. I got my shower done and had just started to grab a towel when my phone started ringing...at 6:20 in the morning. It was my sister that lives 100+ miles away. She was calling to tell me that one of the special people in my life had been taken to the hospital and had been ther

Tom

October 26, 2006

it's getting cold.

They say there

October 26, 2006

Flight

Last night, some of you may have witnessed me throwing a bit of a temper tantrum and a subsequent pity party. I believe it went something along the lines of "f**kING f**k f**k BANK OF AMERICA THoSE SHITS" followed whimpering as I tried to pull myself together and deal with the situation. What happened: I had the perfect itinerary and at a cost just meeting my budget. The problem was I did not have enough money actually in the bank at the time, so I had to make a deposit. Unfortunately, they

Demetz in Demetz

October 25, 2006

Joe's Blog

Sick of the Bullshit

I'm done with school on December 21. After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. As to this point, I planned on staying at home, working, and then taking night classes at one of the community colleges and try to get some of those required courses out of the way. Then in the Fall, I'd register as a Freshman and start college. Now, I'm seriously reconsidering that. Not all of it, but the living at home part. When I lived in Texas, I had work until 10:30 every night on weekdays, and would ge

JSmith

October 24, 2006

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Two Hero's

The occasion of this photograph was a Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall on 11 November 2004. The veteran pictured is Houston James, a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the Marine is Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr., a member of an ordnance-disposal team who lost his left hand, one leg, and an eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July 2003.

NickolasJames8

October 24, 2006

Luc's Dementia

Parental Pissiness

If Sam says "you wouldn't understand" to me ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to make a stew out of him.

Luc

October 24, 2006

Projects/Progress

I owe it to my fan to let him know what is up. The check is in the mail. ________________________________________________________ Broken- on hiatus. Six to nine more chapters, 2 written, all outlined. This is a pretty emotional story to write and the climax of the story is coming. When it is released, it will be ready. I thought about finishing this story this fall but wasn't satisfied with it. Operation Hammerhead- working There will be much more of this story. Coming Soon

October 24, 2006

saturday-oh-saturday

October 21, 2006

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Constitutional

I wanted to share this piece with everyone....it's a story by a former congressman about the Constitution, a document that the Republicrats in Washington DC and all of their foolish supporters seem to know nothing about. Read on........ One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crocke

NickolasJames8

October 21, 2006

Viv's Blog

i'm hungry!

That might be because it's 3 pm now and so far today I have had a grande caramel apple cider from starbucks, a piece of bacon, a raspberry tootsie pop, an icee, and two cheese puffs I stole from my son I think... I'm more tired than hungry though since I was up for work at 3 am the past two days. Who does that? Oh yeah... me So I don't have long... since I have to leave in 40 minutes to go get Rich and then... MY NEW CAR!!!! for the third time this week :wacko: It's alright though, I'll co

viv

October 20, 2006

vlista20's Blog

Rainy Friday

vlista20

October 20, 2006

Val's Blog

Are you sure it isnt time for a colorful metaphor?

Okay, so I just have two things to say. One, I'm completely, hopelessly addicted to facebook. I always made fun of all those people who were on there, and on MySpace and stuff, and even though I spend way too much time online I said I'd never be one of them. Yeah, well. I did find a bunch of people I went to high school with, which is sort of cool and sort of pointless, cause it's not like we've kept in touch or I can think of much to say to them besides "wow, it's been a long time." Two, Star T

lagomorph

October 20, 2006

Compliment or insult?

There was some fun drama at lunch today. Two of my friends have just discovered that they want to date each other, and it

October 20, 2006

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Ultra gay

Here's what happens to me in real life(read: Away from the internet)................ My alarm goes off at 5:10 in the morning and I use my fist to find the snooze button so I dont have to open my eyes....this also helps me gain some measure of revenge with the alarm clock for interupting my sleep. I stand in front of the mirror and look at myself for about a minute and try to think about whatever it is I plan to do next. Once I come to grips with the fact that I don't have enough time

NickolasJames8

October 19, 2006

Remember

Matthew Shepherd Foundation I remember when I heard about it. It was an ordinary day at work. I had the radio on. I didn't want to care about it. I had enough to care about. I had been assaulted myself- many times. I'm alive myself because I've got a thick head. In fact all the fuss over a run of the mill gay bashing made me angry. When it had happened to me, the cops were completely disinterested. It didn't really hit me until I saw the picture. He looked like a little kid. It m